Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company

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2 minutes ago, wombat said:

What makes journalists, or anyone for that matter, think Twitter is a democracy?

What made right wingers think that the First Amendment applied to Twitter?

Few are questioning Musk's right to censor; it's his hypocrisy that's the issue.

[Bkk Brian]

Musk fanboys need to get voting asap, its not looking good for him......

 

10 hours left on the vote, results from screenshot just now:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097

 

Musk polls Twitter users about whether he should step down

Elon Musk is asking Twitter’s users to decide if he should stay in charge of the social media platform after acknowledging he made a mistake Sunday in launching new speech restrictions that sought to ban mentions of rival social media platforms.

In yet another drastic policy change, Twitter had announced that users will no longer be able to link to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and other platforms the company described as “prohibited.”

But the move generated so much immediate criticism, including from past defenders of Twitter’s new billionaire owner, that Musk promised not to make any more major policy changes without an online survey of users.

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-8dac8ae023444ef9c37ca1d8fe1c14df

[Bkk Brian]

This was the new policy he introduced last night that caused the backlash. No linking from twitter to any other social platforms. He excluded Tik Tok....mmm

 

https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1604636964183048192

 

[Bkk Brian]

Musk at the match last night with his buddy Jared Kushner 

 

https://twitter.com/dohanews/status/1604510018832826369

 

 

 

 

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50 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Musk fanboys need to get voting asap, its not looking good for him......

 

10 hours left on the vote, results from screenshot just now:

 

But the move generated so much immediate criticism, including from past defenders of Twitter’s new billionaire owner, that Musk promised not to make any more major policy changes without an online survey of users.

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-8dac8ae023444ef9c37ca1d8fe1c14df

And given Musk's record, we can all be confident that's a promise he will keep.

[Woof999]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Musk at the match last night with his buddy Jared Kushner 

 

https://twitter.com/dohanews/status/1604510018832826369

 

 

 

 

Isn't that Doha News doxxing Musk's location? Surely he should ban them.

[SunnyinBangrak]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

This was the new policy he introduced last night that caused the backlash. No linking from twitter to any other social platforms. He excluded Tik Tok....mmm

 

https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1604636964183048192

 

Common sense and SOP. For eg you can't link to other Thai forums here, never been a problem. It seems Musk has taken over being the pinata for progressives unbridled hatred causing a lack of reason in arguments.

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11 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Common sense and SOP. For eg you can't link to other Thai forums here, never been a problem. It seems Musk has taken over being the pinata for progressives unbridled hatred causing a lack of reason in arguments.

Common sense = less free speech. More hypocrisy from Musk and his supporters.

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

Common sense and SOP. For eg you can't link to other Thai forums here, never been a problem. It seems Musk has taken over being the pinata for progressives unbridled hatred causing a lack of reason in arguments.

Oh look, a fanboy.

 

You're common sense is lacking, twitter is not a forum, its a social media platform. This forum allows links to facebook etc. Twitter should allow links to other social networks, if not then legally they are in big trouble.

 

"Twitter and other social media platforms are not traditional publishers, as such publishers have civil and criminal legal liability for the things that they publish. 

In other words, if Twitter decides to classify itself as a traditional publisher, it would be legally liable for every tweet that is posted on the website.

"It appears that you admit that you’re a publisher for purposes of Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code," Mariotti explained to Musk. "Have you thought about the consequences of the positions you’re taking, or are you just winging it?"

 

"Any attempt to remove my tweets that link to my other social media accounts, not violating any law, would actually make Twitter an editorial media, and no longer a social media platform, with civil and criminal liability for *any* illegal content therein," he explained.

 

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2658980703

 

Why do you think he apologized?

 

 

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832

 

Are you paying your $8 a month for Musk's version of free speech yet and supporting your hero?

 

[ozimoron]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

This was the new policy he introduced last night that caused the backlash. No linking from twitter to any other social platforms. He excluded Tik Tok....mmm

 

https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1604636964183048192

 

Rumble isn't there either.

[SunnyinBangrak]

14 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Common sense = less free speech. More hypocrisy from Musk and his supporters.

Don't dox someone. It is extremely dangerous. That's it. Not too onerous is it? Twitter is no longer censoring inconvenient facts nor banning media for factual reporting, this should please everybody. if one side was relying on fake narratives, control of most media and censorship banning factual posts to mislead people, well clearly it was unsustainable.

 Hypocrisy? Hilarious considering...

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Don't dox someone. It is extremely dangerous. That's it. Not too onerous is it? Twitter is no longer censoring inconvenient facts nor banning media for factual reporting, this should please everybody. if one side was relying on fake narratives, control of most media and censorship banning factual posts to mislead people, well clearly it was unsustainable.

 Hypocrisy? Hilarious considering...

Nobody was doxxed. Doxxing is the publication of identifying unknown personal details. The location of Musk's jet was publicly available information. Musk is just being a lizard.

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16 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Don't dox someone. It is extremely dangerous. That's it. Not too onerous is it? Twitter is no longer censoring inconvenient facts nor banning media for factual reporting, this should please everybody. if one side was relying on fake narratives, control of most media and censorship banning factual posts to mislead people, well clearly it was unsustainable.

 Hypocrisy? Hilarious considering...

First off, even by musk's new definition of doxxing, the suspended journalists did not dox him. He lied. When they confronted him about this during an audio conference, he fled. Why are you repeating his lies? He also lied about relationship of the location ofhis private plane to the alleged stalking. And I write because so far musk h no police report about the incident has been filed. Geolocation evidence from the video of the event proves that the car was nowhere in the vicinity of Musk's jet.

[ozimoron]

Musk is clearly winging it and not taking expert advice from anybody.

 

Twitter Support then specified that "we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post."

 

In response to this post, Éric Freyssinet, the deputy director of France's Cyberspace Gendarmerie Command, warned Twitter CEO Elon Musk that his company could lose protections against both civil and criminal legal liabilities if it really enforces this policy.

 

"Any attempt to remove my tweets that link to my other social media accounts, not violating any law, would actually make Twitter an editorial media, and no longer a social media platform, with civil and criminal liability for *any* illegal content therein," he explained.

 

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2658980534/

[mikebike]

16 hours ago, wombat said:

What makes journalists, or anyone for that matter, think Twitter is a democracy?

No one does. What are you on about? 

[Foghorn]

17 hours ago, placeholder said:

This comment is the kind of thing that could have been said by some sitcom character. My first attempt to pin it down was Homer Simpson. It was certainly clueless enough. But the nastiness was way too over the top. Then eureka.  I realized that a perfect fit would be either Alf Garnett or Archie Bunker.

Alf Garnett , great , thanks for the compliment, much appreciated 

[Rimmer]

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[Bkk Brian]

Doxxing what doxxing? "Police say a member of Elon Musk’s security team is currently a suspect in their investigation, not a victim"

 

The Washington Post reporter when asking for a comment from Musk instantly got herself banned from twitter. They ran the article anyway, now the Guardian has found out a little more.

 

Musk's ex, the singer Grimes lives nearby where this took place. the alleged stalker had some bizarre fascination with her and claimed Musk was tracking him in real time. 

 

Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident

A 29-year-old man from Connecticut told the South Pasadena police Tuesday that a driver in another vehicle had confronted him in a parking lot, accused him of following him on the 110 freeway, and then struck the man with his vehicle as he was leaving the parking lot.

Last Thursday, “South Pasadena Police learned the suspect involved in this case is believed to be a member of Elon Musk’s security team,” the department said in a statement.

The Washington Post reported on Sunday that it had identified the alleged stalker, who confirmed to the Post that he was the person in the video, and that he had reported what happened to the South Pasadena police.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/police-provide-first-official-details-on-elon-musks-alleged-stalker-incident